REST is becoming more popular as a means of implementing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) as well as merely providing simple remote APIs for interacting with systems. The main reason for this is that it provides a very simple means of creating and consuming Services. Contrasted to SOA implementations like SOAP and REST can be a [...]

If Ruby on Rails is all about optimizing the development of web applications, then what would happen if you optimized Rails?
Well, it would get streamlined. Streamlined is a generator for Rails that can be used to easily create sites that are much better looking and much easier to use than the standard scaffold generated views. [...]